I Can't Believe I Did That!!

Have you ever been convicted by the Holy Spirit about sin in your life, repented and resolved to change, and then the very next day you go ahead and do it again?? Do you ever get on that merry-go-round cycle of sin-confess-sin-confess? I know I do. In fact, its something I struggle with regularly.
It might help you to know that the Apostle Paul also struggled in the same way. He wrote in Romans 7: 18-24 "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?"
If his conclusion to his dilemma was what he said in verse 24, I sure wouldn't feel much hope, would you? "What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?"
Fortunately he turns the corner and gives the good news: "Thanks be to God - through Jesus Christ our Lord!" (v 25)
He goes on to say in chapter 8 that the law leads to sin and death, but the Spirit gives life and freedom!!
Question: Does the Spirit of God live in you? If the answer to that question is "yes", here's so more good news: "You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you." (v. 9)
Could it be that I've been trying to "clean myself up" or do it all on my own strength?
I love verse 11: "And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you", because it reminds me of one of my Scripture memory verses from this summer: "Since then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things" (Col. 3:1)
Those 2 verses tell me that because Jesus rose from the dead, the Spirit gives life and freedom to me. And because of Christ's finished work, I have also been raised with Christ. So when I let the Spirit have control, instead of trying to do it all myself, that's when I'll have freedom from that cycle of sin-confess-sin-confess.
Philip Yancey has said: "The proof of spiritual maturity isn't how 'pure' you are, but your awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to God's grace."
Oh God, empty me of "me" and fill me with Your Spirit, so that my sin nature won't take over, and so that I can live by Your Spirit!!